Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-25
OREGON NEWS.
Eyerything Of General Interest In q
Condensed Form

A Methodist Church is TO be built al
Burns, to cost about $1,000.
Baker City has voted to issue *3o,-
600 in bonds to build new schooi'
house.
The postofice and store at Noun
taindale, Washington county, was
burned.
RE. Davis, commercial traveller
from San Francisco, committed SUICIDE
at Lakeview.
The new Jail building at Prineville
is nearly completed, and will soon re-
ceive the cells.
John McDonough, of Lakeview, had
leg badly crushed by getting caught
under wagon.
The Ii Grande postoffice will be-
come a salaried office at the end OF the
present quarter.
A large wharf is to be built by the
O. X. & N. Company at Albany for use
in freight traffic.
A new postoffice has been establi shed
at Langlois, Curry county, with Alex
| ii. Thrift as postmaster.
George Wilgerter, Baker county
man, has been adjudged insane and
sent to the asylum at Salem.
Hide hunters have about cleaned
out the forests about Grants Pass ana
there is no venison in the market.
wv. Baird offers to erect a $50 600
theater in Portland If citizens will sub
scribe sufficient gum to buy site for
the same.
The total value OF taxable property
in Washington county is assessed at
$2,954 ,32O, being an increase OF 1857
$40 over last year.
Elisha Sperry, son OF ]. B. Sperry
of Heppner, committed suicide near
that place. The cause OF the action
was family trouble.
G. H. Caldwell, the slayer OF Charles
Keen at Siskiyou mountain, has been
found guilty of murder at Jacksonville
and sentenced for life.
1t cost farmer near Harrisburg
1865 to raise 80 watermelons. He had
to shoot seven boys in order to give
the melons fair shake.
Jack Thompson killed Herbert
Sherry at Antelope in drunken row
Thompson is the man who killed muir
derer Harvey last spring.
Hugo Friedrich was killed in saw
, mill at Yaquima. His foot was caught
in the betting and he was thrown with
great force against pile of lumber.
! Twenty car loads OF grain wert
5 shipped from Spoford Station a few
7 days ago to Denver, Colorado, and viii
t be used in the local mills at that place
The Fort Klamath and Linkvill,
: wagon road company has been re
1 strained from collecting toll until thu
road complies with the law regulating
s it.
The government has bsnd of owe
: 100 cayuse ponies on the Yakima res
!, , crvation, but the Indians refuse t.
= take care of them, and the ponies
are therefore sort of nuisance.
+ In North Salem, J. w. Murrow,
y teamster at the asylum, while on hi
n way home was assaulted and choket
+ until senseless, and robbed of 1885,
. by two persons to him unknown.
e The Stockmen's Association, of Gil
liam and Morrow counties, have a per
g manent organization, composed Of tn
= following officers; President, H. c
: Willis; vice-president, N. Cecil secre
S tary, l.. O. Ralston; treasurer, n
d Baird.
: The following are the officers OF tn
Willamette Valley Beekeepers Associ
alton: President, Cyrus Hoskins, New
r berg; vice president, D. Kaufman
e Needy; secretary, Mrs. DR.. Young
0 McMinville; treasurer, S. F. Harding
e McMinville.
Some OF the farmers in this section
= report having cut three crops of alfalf
u this year, says an Ococho paper. Thi
;. grass seems to be we'll adapted to tn
: soil and climate OF this country, an,
= will eventually be raised to q consider
. able extent.
/ j. H. Weaver, of Weston, has quit
a curiosity in his garden in the shap
i, OF pear tree. 1t is of the Bartlett
$ variety, and has borne three crops o
e pears this year. 1t bloomed in April
0 June and August, and the last crop i
fast ripening.
From Warner valley come speci
i mems OF the fine, white salt found il
; large quantities in some of the oil,
i lake beds there. 1t is said to be pure
J. than the finest Liverpool salt. Larg
81 deposits OF borax are also found in tina
: valley. The salt beds have been worke,
for many years.
# Medford has shipped PIT tons @
|. frult to Portland this season, says al
!. Ashland paper When the whole sea
. | sons shipment from Ropne Riuer w